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Fresh from Madonna's recent claims that she is a fan of the Duchess's style ("I like her choices. She's elegant and still knows how to have fun" said the fishnet and hot pants-loving singer), comes former
The Only Way Is Essex
"star" Amy Childs, demonstrating how imitation is still the sincerest form of flattery.

Beauty-salon owner Childs, 21, was sighted at Los Angeles airport last night in the same £69.99 lace-print Zara dress which Kate wore to the Prince's Trust Rock Gala last week. From her glossy, side-parted tresses which tumble long past her shoulders, to the simple black court shoes and sensible handbag, the perma-tanned Essex native looked like a dead ringer for the new Duchess.

Childs could have chose one of the many sparkly, figure-hugging and cleavage-enhancing designs currently stocked on her
website
(yes, she also has a beauty collection coming soon), but Essex's one and only "Diamond Girl", as she calls herself, instead chose to emulate Kate's impeccable style.

Sadly, though, that's where the similarities end. Childs, who brought the "vajazzle" to public consciousness, wore her Zara number without tights, something the demure Duchess would never do. Sisters in style? Not quite.